linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 25 (crypto)

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Date:	Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:20:27 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.hengli.com.au>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Oct 25 (crypto)

On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:45:44 +0200, Herbert Xu said:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 03:05:16AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

> > Are there any use cases where a config (probably embedded) would wantq
> > CRYPTO_USER but not CRYPTO_NET?  Would seem a shame to pull in the entire
> 
> Since the CRYPTO_USER interface sits on top of netlink I don't
> see how you could possibly avoid NET.

Oh, OK.  The original bug report looked like just some utility functions not
defined, so I didn't pick up on the "it needs netlink" aspect of it.

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